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Course Description

The purpose of the Pediatric Seizures Educational Module is to enhance the emergency care of pediatric patients who present with seizure activity. It will discuss a number of topics including appropriate:

Assessment

Management

Prevention of Complications

Disposition, and

Patient & Parent/Caregiver Education

It is our hope that healthcare professionals will utilize these materials to further enhance the care of children in their own institutions.

NOTE: This module is a revision of the original document published in June 2012.

Obtaining Continuing Education Credit

All of the following criteria must be met in order for the learner to receive the continuing education hour(s) awarded with the activity:

Learner’s electronic registration to verify participation.

Learner completes the program in its entirety.

Learner achieves at least 80% on the course quiz/post-test.

Learner completes a Course Evaluation at the end of the activity.

Accessing the Educational Modules (for continuing education credit)

UIC Public Health Learning

Go to https://www.publichealthlearning.com/course/

Click “Illinois Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC)”

Select Pediatric Seizures

If you have an account, log in using your username and password. If you do not have an account, click create an account, and follow the prompts.

IDPH TRAIN Illinois

Go to train.org/Illinois/home

If you have an account, log in using your username and password. If you do not have an account, click create an account, and follow the prompts.

In the upper right hand corner of the screen is a magnifying glass. Click the magnifying class to open the search text field.

In the search text field, type “Pediatric Seizures”

The search result screen should appear with the course listed as the first result.

Click “Pediatric Seizures”

Click to register for the course. A launch option should then become available.

When using TRAIN Illinois, please note that the presentation audio is best viewed using Google Chrome. If needed, the course ID number is 1082531.

Nurses

Continuing education hours have been approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health Division of Emergency Medical Services and Highway Safety.

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation requires that all nurses shall complete 20 hours of approved continuing education per 2-year license renewal cycle. Site Code approved educational programs through the Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of EMS & Highway Safety can be used toward meeting nursing continuing education hours, provided that the continuing education is in a clinical field relevant to one's nursing practice.

For non-Illinois healthcare professionals: Please verify with your State to confirm acceptance of CE approved by another State Department of Health.

Physicians

Continuing education hours have been approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health Division of Emergency Medical Services and Highway Safety.

A physician should self-claim credit for appropriate AMA PRA Category 2 Credit™ activities and document activity title or description, subject or content area, date(s) of participation and number of credits claimed. Physicians may not claim AMA PRA Category 2 Credit™ for an activity for which the physician has claimed AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Each physician is responsible for claiming and maintaining a record of their AMA PRA Category 2 Credit™. (Source: AMA's The Physician's Recognition Award and Credit System, 2010 revision)

For non-Illinois healthcare professionals: Please verify with your State to confirm acceptance of CE approved by another State Department of Health.

Prehospital Providers

Continuing education hours have been approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health Division of Emergency Medical Services and Highway Safety.

For non-Illinois healthcare professionals: Please verify with your State to confirm acceptance of CE approved by another State Department of Health.

Please retain your certificate in the event of a future audit by the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation.

Your certificate will be proof of your attendance.

It is your responsibility to safeguard and retain your certificates.

Disclaimer:This educational activity is being presented without the provision of commercial support and without bias or conflict of interest from the planners and presenters.

This educational activity is provided by the Illinois EMSC program for educational purposes only. Unless stated otherwise, documents and files on the Illinois EMSC Web site can be freely downloaded and reproduced.

This educational activity provides links to non-Illinois EMSC Internet sites only for the convenience of World Wide Web users. The Illinois EMSC is not responsible for the availability or content of these external sites, nor does it endorse, warrant or guarantee the products, services or information described or offered at these other Internet sites.

Lurie Children's provides healthcare regardless race, color, religion (creed), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin (ancestry), or disability. Financial assistance for medically necessary services is based on family income and hospital resources, and is provided to children under age 21 whose primary residence is in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Lurie Children's complies with applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or disability.